Word: marketing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the U.S. Gina Lollobrigida is a hot favorite. Moscow saw some nudes this year-and was shocked. Love scenes are permitted in movies, and kissing even takes place on the stage, something taboo in Stalin's day. Recordings of American jazz bring bizarre prices on the black market, as much as $100 for a single record...
...DIAMOND MARKET is slumping to lowest point in 3½ years. First-quarter sales by De Beers, which controls world supply, totaled only $42.8 million v. $49.7 million in same 1957 period. Biggest drop-off came in automakers' demand for industrial stones, but gem demand also fell...
Foreign oil accounts for about 12% of the U.S. market, deprives U.S. producers of barely 2 bbl. per well daily. But many economists argue that quotas are unfair to a large and growing segment of U.S. business; from a mere handful of companies in 1946, there are now more than 100 firms operating overseas that contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to the U.S. economy each year...
...been bewitched. As an expert witness he brought along a witch doctor, who corroborated every word. To preserve his good will in the area, the harassed dealer had no recourse but to give the chief a new car-and wonder what would happen to the auto insurance market in Guin...
...official view was that smaller monkeys are not necessary for polio vaccine. But unofficially, the reason was increasing religious pressure from India's monkey deifiers. plus a dark fear that other countries really use the monkeys for rocket and radiation research. Whatever the reason, by last week the market was effectively killed. Unable to find enough six-pounders, hundreds of trappers went out of business in India, cut off all but a fraction of the monkey supply. And while U.S. drug houses have passed the peak of polio vaccine demand, the Indian ruling was a disaster to Britain, which...